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Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes

Business | Marvel Entertainment’s third-quarter profits plunged 60 percent because of a steep decline in film revenue and licensing sales for the period. The publishing division declined 6 percent, or $2 million, compared to the third quarter of 2008, which the company attributes to a drop in custom publishing offset by an increase in book-market revenue. [Bloomberg, Marvel.com]

Publishing | The list of nominees for the Young Adult Library Services Association’s annual Great Graphic Novels for Teens is, as usual, diverse, with titles ranging from R. Crumb’s The Book of Genesis Illustrated and Jamaica Dyer’s Weird Fishes to Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto and Mark Millar and Tommy Lee Edwards’ 1985.

The nominations, divided into categories for fiction and nonfiction, are led by Marvel with 15 titles, DC Comics and its imprints with 13, Viz Media with 12 (but for 18 volumes), Dark Horse with eight and Del Rey and Yen Press with six each.

The final selections, chosen by an 11-person committee, will be presented in mid-January at the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in Boston. [YALSA]

Publishing | Marvel has hired Bon Alimagno, editorial director of Harris Publications, as its editorial talent coordinator, replacing Chris Allo, who left the company in September. [Bleeding Cool]

Creators | R. Crumb’s speech last week at the University of Richmond has created a bit of a campus controversy. [The Collegian]

Creators | Stan Lee recounts his comics career, from his early work at Timely to the creation of the Marvel Universe to the Marvel bankruptcy and the creation of Stan Lee Media and POW! Entertainment. [Inc.]

Creators | In the first part of a promised two-part interview with J.H. Williams III, the artist talks about his introduction to comics — Marvel’s Micronauts — his process and his work on Hellboy: Weird Tales and Chase. [Saturday Morning Comics]